Bits and bobs

Heysham obs
Another rather slow day with dawn way before the cloud and murk rolled in . Blackcap continued to be above average with eight ringed, about half the new birds handled.

Highlights
Grasshopper warbler - one singing by office on tank farm
Purple sandpiper - one on rocks by wooden jetty
Turnstone - 95 by wooden jetty
Wheatear - 11 coastal birds
Little egret - 3 red nab
Whimbrel - one